This time, Qin Kai was rewarded quite beyond his expectations, the governor of Guangdong, the minister of Nanyang supervised the military affairs of the Nanyang Naval Division, and the most important thing was that on the issue of the Mawei Ship Master's Office, there was no explanation of the dismissal of the post, and his position of the shipmaster's supervisor who was originally counted as the sixth grade was still hanging, and he was also given the name of "full authority to deal with overseas civil and military affairs".

This made him a little surprised, he was busy looking for Sun Fu, after all, this officialdom matter, Sun Fu is an expert, repeatedly read the edict and official documents several times, Sun Fu's expression was quite dignified, sat there and pondered for a few minutes, before he spoke: "Gale Wind, this matter is actually not a big deal, this court, no one can rest assured!" ”

"Brother Sun, what do you mean by that?" Qin Kai understood some, but more than half of them didn't understand.

Sun Fu didn't understand why this smart Qin Liefeng couldn't understand these doorways in the officialdom, so he explained in detail what he thought of, and Qin Kai was also dizzy when he heard it, according to what Sun Fu said, Ding Richang is fine, but Liu Kunyi and Li Zhongtang have something to do.

This old lady of the West Palace is also too hateful, she gives herself this overseas civil and military affairs Qincha, and does not give money to others, but now I think that it is indeed quite skillful, so that although the Beiyang Naval Division will become bigger and stronger, it is only the responsibility of defending the country, and the Nanyang Naval Division, just a few broken ships, will have to go out to work hard for the Manchu Qing.

If there are achievements, Beiyang will inevitably be red-eyed and cause some disputes, so that the two armies will contain each other and also fulfill the wishes of the people in the palace.

Qin Kai smiled, this old lady Cixi is indeed a character to engage in some deceitful things, she has been in power for decades, and this power is extremely secure, but such a short-sighted and power-hungry woman, the final result is to completely sink the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a broken ship that has been riddled with holes......

Since I have been given this platform, then I will do my best to strive for as many interests as possible for the Chinese nation in this great era of global division by the great powers...... I can't help it!

"Brother Sun, I don't have much contact with Liu Kunyi and Lord Liu, do you see if you can get in touch? Even if you pay some price, I think it's worth it, after all, he is the old man of your Hunan army, as the saying goes, fertilizer and water don't flow into the fields of outsiders! Qin Kai grinned and began to think about the activities of corruption and co-optation.

Sun Fu shook his head, "Gale Wind, this Liu Kun is different from Li Zhongtang, you are willing to show a posture and pay the price in the middle hall, and there is also the mediation of Lord Ding, so that the Huai Army has today's attitude towards you, but Zuo Dashuai and Liu Dashuai are not like this, do you know how Zuo Dashuai has a grudge with Li Zhongtang?" ”

Qin Kai has learned a lot about the history of this era, but fortunately, the information of the light brain is as vast as the sea, and he has also found a lot of information, about the grievances and grievances between Zuo Dashuai and Li Zhongtang, he found at least ten reasons, some people say that it is to fight for the right to speak in the court, and some people say that it is because of the contradictions between Zeng Hou and the arrangement of the two......

But the most mentioned point, which has also been recognized by the overwhelming majority of historians and sources, is that Zuo Zongtang looked down on this Huaijun colleague when he first entered the shogunate of Zeng Guofan, and Zuo Dashuai even bluntly said that Li Zhongtang would not fight, and he was a good hand at handling foreign affairs, because he was a soft bone and did not have a tough attitude towards foreigners at all.

These wild histories have been handed down to later generations, and naturally there are elements of fabrication, but it can be seen that the personalities of the two are incompatible, and it is obvious that Liu Kunyi has a lot of similarities with Zuo Dashuai in terms of great Cheng Dù.

Thinking of this, Qin Kai said a little bit about the wild history he knew, which made Sun Fu quite impressed, it was obvious that these things may not be completely true, but they are groundless, and there is a reason for thinking about it.

After hearing this, Sun Fu smiled and said, "Gale Wind, I didn't expect you to be very well-informed, some of these things I haven't heard of, but according to this Zuo Dashuai's way, most of them are the truth, you should know how to deal with this matter!" ”

Qin Kai blinked his eyes, this Sun Fu spoke half-heartedly, how could he know how to deal with it? This Liu Kunyi is an acquaintance of your Sun Fu, thinking of this, he directly played tricks on him and threw off his burden, "Brother Sun, I really don't know how to deal with this matter, it seems that I have to ask you to come out once, how about it?" ”,

Sun Fu smiled, "Gale Wind, you are really confused, the world has helped the people, Lord Ding is this idea, this Liu Kun doesn't want to do it, when he says it, you let me do it, I can't do it, I have to go out!" As for the errand contact, I'll naturally handle it! ”

Qin Kai only then understood what Sun Fu meant, Liu Kunyi was a general of the Hunan army, and he was also an enlightened figure in the later period, he was a minister who had been in battle for a long time, and in history after the Wuxu Change, he united Zhang Zhidong to engage in new learning and foreign activities, but at this time he did not do anything foreign affairs in the position of the governor of Liangguang, and the most he did was to set up agricultural production in Liangguang, but he made some small names, but in this era of great industry, how can traditional agriculture achieve too much results?

Thinking of this, Qin Kai seems to have found some signs, the land of Guangzhou, in fact, in addition to a few large ports in Guangzhou, the economy of other places is also very bad, the Western goods are dumped in large quantities, and what is plundered is rice, tea, silk These important materials, although now cotton cloth, due to the participation of the China Textile Association, the dumping situation of foreign businessmen in this area has eased a lot, but other aspects, such as foreign oil, etc., and the vast majority of the market is controlled by Westerners.

With an idea, he thanked Sun Fu, and then went to see Ding Richang and Zhang Peilun, from today on, he is also a big bureaucrat of the Qing Dynasty to supervise this class, but now he needs the support of Ding Richang and Zhang Peilun even more. He knows very well in his heart that today is just the beginning, and now is the time to open up a big world!

As soon as he left the Governor's Palace, Lü Shu sent a telegram from Minister Schleier, in which Schleier happily told Qin Kai two good news, one was that his proposed military aid plan with Germany had been approved by Chancellor Bismarck, and a 300-member German officer training regiment had set off from the port of Hamburg, which would bring German military training help to Qin Kai's army.

The second news, Schleier seems to be good news, the French cabinet has been seriously questioned because of the attack on the port of Saigon in Vietnam, which has been dissolved a few days ago, and the new cabinet is being prepared, so it seems that the situation in Vietnam is developing in a good direction!

However, this news is not inferior to a big thunderbolt for Qin Kai, because he knows best the result of the formation of the next French cabinet, the leader of the out-and-out colonialism and warmonger Republican Party, Jouferry, is about to ascend to the throne of the French cabinet again, and France's foreign policy will once again be replaced by outright colonial expansionism.

He immediately realized that those bigwigs in China were probably confused by the superficial information of this news at this time, after all, because of the victory of the Nanyang Navy Division and the fall of the French cabinet, the French should be more or less honest now, and at this moment, he can imagine that Li Zhongtang must be negotiating with the French without losing the opportunity, it is best to sacrifice the interests of some Vietnamese at most without spending a single soldier, and it is good to feed these French wolves!

However, I am only an insignificant trickle in the process of history, and it is not easy to change the history of Vietnam, and we must immediately start a series of actions in Vietnam according to the plan!!

However, the French did not give Yu Qin Kai a chance to strike first this time, because in the face of the previous land war, although the governor of Cochinchina, Lu Mei, had ordered the French army in northern Vietnam to suspend military operations and wait for news from home, but the romantic Commander Li Weiye decided to take the lead in launching a military operation after thinking twice.

At this time, the army under Li Weiye's command had rapidly swelled from 300 when he had just landed in Haiphong to three battalions of marines, one battalion of Algerian black servants, and five battalions of Vietnamese indigenous troops, and the number of them rapidly swelled to 2,700 people.

His deputy commander, Lieutenant Colonel Ha Nyu, led a battalion of French troops and a battalion of Vietnamese indigenous troops stationed at Kim Thanh, west of Haiphong, where they could follow the Taiping River all the way up to Northwest Ninh of Hanoi, and if necessary, carry out a large-scale outflanking to complete the siege of Hanoi, Shanxi, and Bac Ninh. ,

Li Weiye and Lieutenant Colonel Xia Niu discussed this battle plan many times, and both of them were full of confidence, and they naturally prepared sufficient reasons to reject the telegram from Governor Lu Mei in the rear.

On October 7, Li Weiye telegraphed to the Governor's Palace of Cochinchina, Saigon, that the Vietnamese soldiers stationed in Dongxing City, north of Wuqiu County, had attacked the French troops stationed there, and in order to warn the Vietnamese, he had ordered an attack on Dongxing City, and he even boldly ordered the soldiers to carry only one day's rations and as much ammunition as possible!

In fact, Dongxing City did garrison a sentry Vietnamese army under the jurisdiction of the Vietnamese horse Huang Zuoyan, the number of people was only 200 people, and the weapons basically belonged to extremely outdated broadswords and spears, Li Weiye led the 4th battalion of the army of nearly 1,200 marines, 12 field guns, and took seven warships such as the "Doulak" and the "Baswal" from the Red River to the river, and when they arrived at Dongxing City, the Vietnamese did not fire a single shot, and directly entered from the north gate.

The French easily occupied Dongxing City unscathed, and for this kind of non-resisting city, the French occupation army also strictly enforced military discipline and military regulations, and after quickly confiscating the official treasury and granary, in addition to levying a donation fee on the wealthy households in the city, Li Weiye immediately appointed a second lieutenant and his soldiers to take over the affairs of Dongxing City.

In Dongxing City, a large number of people were forcibly requisitioned to transport the wealth and grain looted in the city to the banks of the Red River, and two teams of Vietnamese indigenous soldiers were responsible for escorting them!

After the first day of fighting was relaxed, Commander Li Weiye, who was full of wet temperament, immediately wrote a report to Saigon to report the progress, saying that the Vietnamese army had collapsed on all fronts and the French army was pursuing the victory!

Indeed, early the next morning, the French warships went up the river and again encountered more than 100 Vietnamese who had escaped from Dongxing City at a bay 10 miles north of Tung Hung City, and the French rushed down the gunboats with a roar and went straight to the Vietnamese, who had not eaten for a day and whose morale was extremely low, and they surrendered within a few minutes.

For the inferior weapons of the Vietnamese, the French simply threw them into the river, and a large number of routed soldiers were actually captured and incorporated into the baggage transport team, this kind of free labor, without that is a show.

In the afternoon of the same day, the French fleet rushed to the Vietnamese-controlled city of Liren, and this time, the Vietnamese army here put up a resolute resistance, and about 300 Vietnamese soldiers relied on the thick walls of Liren to resist the French who were going up the river!

However, the resistance against the well-trained French army, equipped with up to 12 65mm field guns, and the fire support of 8 gunboats, with cold weapons and ancient guns, was clearly an act of self-inflicted resistance, and from the time the guns on the gunboats attacked, the entire walls of Lijn were turned into a sea of fire. After the first attack by the French, the Vietnamese also rushed to the castle tower and put up a desperate resistance, but ...... They only lasted half an hour!

However, this battle resulted in 2 French deaths and 12 minor injuries, which made Li Weiye very angry, and he immediately ordered a search of the city, and the Algerian soldiers and indigenous soldiers became the protagonists of the second half of the story, especially the crazy robbery of the Algerian soldiers in the battalion.

Bands of Vietnamese, believed to have assisted the army, tied up to the Red River and executed en masse, while more than 600 people were executed at once in this small county, a small county town with a population of only 4,000, until Li Weiye was satisfied.

The next three days of offensive along the way were completely spring-outing battles, and those Vietnamese troops without combat effectiveness without exception abandoned their weapons and baggage, and quickly collapsed, and at this time, after two days of sudden advance, Li Weiye was only more than 50 kilometers away from Hanoi.

At this time in Hanoi City, the Vietnamese horse Hoang Zuo Yan had already received the news that the troops from the front had been brought back, and the French had quickly advanced to the Kuaizhou area of Hanoi without warning. At this moment, Huang Zuoren, who still had more than 8,000 soldiers on hand, immediately panicked, and rushed to the Qing army's Gui army and Yue army's camp stationed in the west of the city overnight to ask for help from the suzerain's army.

At this time, the nominal commander of the Gui army was the new Guangxi political envoy Xu Yanxu, but this old man was recuperating in Langshan hundreds of miles away because he was unwell. So the leader of the troops was Lin Fu, a general of the Guangxi Border Army.

As soon as General Lin heard that the French had rushed nearly 200 miles in two days and had taken down 6 cities, he did not panic, and immediately told Huang Zuoyan that the Vietnamese army would defend Hanoi, and he immediately mobilized the whole army for battle. ,

Seeing that the Vietnamese were gone, General Lin immediately beat the drum and ordered the troops, but the direction of the march was not to the south to meet the French, but immediately ordered the camp to be transferred to the east bank, and the pontoon bridge that had been erected on the Guò Red River to the east bank to camp, and there was also a casual young Qianzong Gao He in the military tent and asked: "General Lin Shen, the general Wu soldiers in the east of the river have ordered us to stick to Hanoi, and now we will go to the east of the river, isn't it good?" ”

immediately gave Lin Fu a scolding, "Gao He, you stinky boy knows a ball, we are the Gui Army, they are the Huai Army, they are not related, why are they Huai Army defending in Hedong, we have to fight hard with the French in Hanoi, you don't see what the Huai Army has to do, there are cannons on the pontoon bridge, it is estimated that if the French take Hanoi, they will not be able to demolish the pontoon bridge!" Before the war has started, we will cross the river, and we will not run away! What's more, Xu Bu's political envoy estimated that he had arrived in Guilin at this time...... Hurry up! ”

You Qian always immediately understood the key to this, now crossing the river is to assist in defense, the French came to cross the river but it is a retreat, don't pass the ass immediately back to the camp to order troops, the heavy grain and grass are naturally to be taken away, and so busy until noon the next day, the entire barracks began to turn in one after another, groups of people and horses rushed to the pontoon bridge on the Red River, swaggering began to cross the river.

There were not many soldiers and horses of the Cantonese army in the barracks on the side, and the commander was also a general, and when he heard that the main Gui army had moved into Hedong, he immediately ordered all the men and horses to follow like rabbits.

On the east bank of the Red River, a simple fort has already been built, and there are two barracks, and it is the Qingzi army Yuan Shikai who led a battalion of soldiers and horses to defend here, but he did not receive the news from Hanoi, and heard that a large number of Gui troops were going to cross the pontoon bridge, so he hurriedly brought his own soldiers to inquire.

Yuan Shikai naturally saw that the signs were wrong, and sent someone to cross the river to Hanoi Mansion to ask, and immediately got the news. And this pontoon bridge is only a feasible width for three people, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses and baggage carts are crowded to the west of the river to cross the river, and they are immediately stirred like a pot of gruel.

Just as the lively and slow crossing of the Red River began, the thick black smoke from the steamship suddenly slowly appeared at the end of the river in the distance downstream, and soon, the people on the bridge began to hear the sound of the steamship starting......